⚡️⚡️ RO-TO-TO! VIDEO INCOMING. ⚡️⚡️
Pewter City. What a sight, huh? Just about as simple as a small town could get. Look, some trees. A Pokécenter, and by Arceus, a Pokémart! ... Well that actually is pretty impressive, seeing a Pokémart separate from a Pokécenter. Most days they tend to be merged together. Anyways.
Derek, with Lady Zee by his side, makes his way towards Pewter City Gym, and despite the early morning scenery he would usually awe over until noon hit, he was on a mission; marching steadfast to kick off a start to this Kantonese Gym Challenge he seemed... ever so uncertain about before. Even for him, with his near-blank stare, you can see small gleams and glimmers of confidence. Zee is holding his fresh forearm cast, give or take an obvious sign of reluctance. There's some back and forth murmuring about "Are you sure you're okay?" and "I'm fine" an overabundance of times, before the two of them briefly stop in front of the door. Derek sighs out some of his predisposed adrenaline, while Zee turns her head up, regaining a friendly smile from her once worried expression.
"I think you're going to do great! I'm with you every step of the way, alright?"
Derek scoffs, smiling right back.
"Thank you."
While Derek makes some slow and graceful slides through the door, Zee is practically throwing herself in, pulling Derek some with her. A cold breeze, and a healthy amount of sand and dust later, they're in.
The place is huge, despite what it looks to be on the outside. Gyms were always like magic tardis rooms, weren't they? The Rotom recording flies around some in the open area, inspecting the blue wall, judging the dirty shirt of the singular lead-up trainer below. Seriously, it looks like he hasn't changed that thing for weeks. Derek immediately spots a path to avoid the straight road that leads to Brock, after all, who needs to battle in a gym? He runs his way around the rock-textured walls, and as much as the trainer tries to make eye contact, they remain completely ignored. Derek's on a mission, he's not here to battle every trainer he sees. Zee acknowledges them, waving with a friendly smile; But since this isn't her gym challenge, the trainer simply waves back, sighing a little. It seems this happens often enough.
Derek stumbles up the very short flight of stairs, Zee practically skipping up behind him as they face the now turned away Rock type Gym Leader. Derek hesitates, it's been a while since he's done this, hopefully he's not too rusty.
"Alola."
"Alola!"
"...Hm?"
Why, we couldn't have expected this.
It's Brock! but... with an actual sweatshirt on instead of a stupid standalone vest. And he has a beard. And a mustache. Sheesh, things must've really gone downhill for this kid since the golden days. Let me...
...
WHAT DO YOU MEAN HE'S 43!?
An Omanyte by his side squeaks, hiding behind one of his shoes, grabbing his shin as a makeshift shield.
"Oh, Alola to you two, as well!"
The two can't help but be confused at the mirror of their greetings. Brock wasn't from Alola, was he?
"Huh? What's the matter? ...
Ohhhh.
Don't look so shocked! I took a visit there not too long ago with some old friends of mine. Besides, we get plenty of Alolan tourists around here, too. It's just part of the dialect, you know?"
"Oh, that's wonderful! You'll have to tell me about your visit after the battle!"
Derek doesn't verbally respond, he just laughs it off.
"Ah, maybe! So then, who's our contender?"
As Brock says this, he hopingly looks to Zee.
"... It's, me, actually."
"I-
Oh
RIGHT! Mr. Alloy, isn't it? Great to have you!"
"That would be correct. And thank you."
"Alright! Recognized as an experienced trainer, isn't that something?"
"...mhm..."
⚡️⚡️"AND SO BEHOLDS THE BATTLE BETWEEN A FOOL AND A MASTER. AN AMATEUR AND AN EXPERT. MAY I PRESENT. METALHEAD. AND THIS GUY. CAN YOU BOTH HURRY UP, I WANT TO GO BACK TO OUR NOT-HOME HOME."⚡️⚡️
"... I am incredibly sorry about him... I... can't exactly stop him, you see."
"Ah, all is well! Challengers tend to enjoy recording their battles often enough!"
"Hee!" ✨
"Right then! With that said, let's get on with it!"
Zee shuffles out of the frame of the camera, excusing herself to the sidelines as the battle arena seems to open up, Derek and Brock backing away from each other, hands on their Pokéballs in thought. As Zee finds herself in a comfortable position in the crowdspace, she yells
"Best of luck, cousin! You've got this!"
Normally, the starter of a battle is often determined by chance, whoever tosses their Pokéball first, and then the other compromises with the best counter. However the Leader then Challenger approach makes this process a bit easier. Instead, Brock simply flicks his wrist forward, sending the Omanyte at his side into battle. This wasn't the direction Derek was expecting this to take, the Omanyte being water type and therefore Lotus being ineffective in this situation. So instead, he grabs hold of the Dive Ball, sending out Jubilee, his newly evolved Galvantula. Zee winces at the spider, backing up much more than necessary, almost against the wall. Brock cocks his head some, but he can see what's going on. He shoots his hand out, commanding a move.
"Omanyte, Rollout, let's go!"
The Omanyte tucks into its shell, charging a spin in place before launching itself at Jubilee.
Despite taking the hit well, she does seem somewhat disoriented. She couldn't see where the attack was coming from, after all, she wasn't given any forewarning. She shakes off some kicked up rocks from her periwinkle fur, lifting up her mandibles afterwards. With some light shocks of electricity, she searches for her target.
left. zip
right. zap
left right. zip zap.
warmer. zip zip.
Gotcha.
Derek takes notice of Jubilee's newfound awareness, and acts accordingly.
"Jubilee, Electro Ball."
With one, two, three notches of charge, she fires the ball of electricity at the small water type, nearly taking it out in one hit. It shivers, struggling to get itself back up on its tentacles.
"Agh, you alright, buddy? I know you're new at this,"
Brock leans down, giving the Omanyte a comforting pat on the shell. It trills, shaking the shock off of itself and prepping itself for the next attack. Brock nods, standing back up.
"Alright, Rollout, one more time!"
This time, Jubilee knew it was coming. She knew where the Omanyte was. She knows the amount of time it took for the Rollout to hit after the attack was commanded. She jumps out of the way, and out of pure instinct, uses Electroweb on the Omanyte now below it. Upon the attack landing, the fossil Pokémon faints, retreating back into its Pokéball.
"... Huh. Would you look at that."
Zee cheers, though jumping when the spider turns in her direction; acknowledging the sound of her voice. By all means, Derek did not call that move, but it was within the turn pattern, so it didn't call for a disqualification. It was odd, but Pokémon develop habits and methods to their madness, so every one's battling style is bound to be different. He grabs for his belt, throwing out his Graveler, who happily punches all four of its fists together to pump itself up. Derek takes a moment to assess the risks here, and decides to withdraw Jubilee; swapping her with Lotus, who turns to look at Derek for treats almost immediately, rather than acknowledging the battle.
"... No, no... Lotus, turn around, please."
You can almost see the spider mouth "oh" as it sees its opponent, swiftly switching to a battling stance rather than a friendly, socializing one. Before Derek can send out a command, briefly forgetting who's turn it was, Brock confidently shouts out a move.
"Self Destruct, let's go!"
It's much before Derek can react. 1. 2. 3. Explosion. The blast nearly takes out Lotus with it, but the Graveler holds on, even after seeming to sacrifice its health. He takes a moment to catch up to what's just happened, but quickly ciphers a response.
"Scald."
And with a prep, and a sudden ray of boiling water, the Graveler is down as well.
"Hey, not bad! Just about what I expected. Don't expect me to go easy on you from here on, though."
"Mhm.."
With another snap of Brocks belt, he sends out his Kabutops, who seems immediately ready for battle, just like the last Pokémon. It crouches down some, ready to lunge towards Lotus well before he could be withdrawn.
"Absorb!"
The Kabutops holds its razor sharp hands together, drawing a green aura in the air around it, before lunging it towards Lotus, then reeling it back towards itself. With the remainder of Lotus' energy drained, he faints, collapsing to the gym floor before being swiftly returned to his pokéball. Derek looks visibly pained, of course after he boasted about how easy this gym would be, it now proved to be somewhat of a challenge. Most of the pokémon on his team were essentially useless here, either not being the right level or not having a proper typing advantage; hell, one not even having fighting moves at all, just Innards Out as an ability. In a panic, he switches back to Jubilee, who immediately begins searching for her target again.
Locked.
"Jubilee, Electroweb."
Jubilee spins around once, before raising her head and spitting out the attack from her mouth. Within seconds, the Kabutops is now encased in a static-bound web; and as much as it tries to cut through the threads with its claw-like hands, it's only tangling itself more and more. Although Brock tries to command it to use a move, it's completely stuck, it can hardly get up off the ground. Instead, Derek commands once again, shooting his hand out.
"Electro Ball."
And with a sudden blast, the Kabutops is down as well, Electroweb dissipating as it collapses into its fainted stance. With that, it only leaves one opponent at the stakes; though unfortunate to deal with, given that Lotus has fainted to the aforementioned Kabutops. Out slithers the Onix, towering over Brock and wrapping itself like a snake ready to attack around the stadium. It looks down at the Galvantula below it, then roars.
Jubilee looks in its direction, chattering with confusion. That was a loud noise. What was that loud noise?
Right.
Derek retreats Jubilee. but. Now what does he do? He can't-
...
well he could.
With a rare snatch to his 6th bag lock, he grabs Pyuku's pokéball, sending it out onto the battlefield. Despite Brock's time in Alola, he doesn't seem to recognize this thing at all. Upon the switch in team members, though, it's once again Brock's turn, and there's only one way this could go.
And just as he thought, Brock goes for an exceedingly powerful move.
"Alright, Onix, you know the drill! Take Down, let's finish this!"
The snakely rock slithers around Brock a couple of times, before speeding up, marking the perimeter of the stadium, speeding up, faster and faster as it goes, an orange aura begins to make itself evident around the creature's face. Once the force of energy turns a yellowish-white, it makes an impact on Pyuku, practically squishing it inside out.
And after a moment, Brock begins to realize what's happened.
With one hit, Brock's not only managed to one hit K.O. the Pyukumuku, but his own Pokémon as well, which has now been covered with multiple of Pyuku's hands, as to visually represent how it'd dragged its opposer down with it. And with that final debunkle, the battle is over, and Derek proves victorious.
Though grossed out by the choice in Pokémon, Zee uproars once again.
"Aaaaa! See! You did so well!"
... Derek pauses to think for a moment, but his once stoic and well-invested expression breaks off, showing a cheeky smirk underneath. What a way to start a Tuesday, huh? Zee runs over, tackle-hugging her cousin in the sheer excitement of victory-- only for Derek to now be doubled over in pain.
"Zee. Zee Back"
"Oh-
Arc I'm sorry!!! I'm just-"
"You don't need to explain yourself. I'm happy, too."
He laughs, backing away from the hug, the two of them exchanging grins for a moment before Brock beckons the air in front of Derek; holding something behind his back.
"Well, you won, fair and square. I completely forgot Pyukumuku's entire offense was. That. I do think I owe you something, though."
⚡️⚡️ RO-TO-TO! VIDEO END. ⚡️⚡️
Dialogue Key:
(Derek)
(Zee)
(Brock)
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Lady Zee belongs to the blogrunner of @ladyzee-oddityhunter! Big thanks to her for letting me include her in this piece of writing ^ ^
If anyone would like to use my aged up Brock design in your canon, feel free! Just please remember to give credit via @spikyegg. Thanks for reading!
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